Images of Westeros, somebody make a map out of it!

[lch]

Atreides said:
Update: Map image added. Can anybody figure out why it won't convert into dominions properly? I know this file is a .bmp, I've tried it as a .tga and it still doesn't register any provinces north of The Neck.

That, uhhmm, might be because you're way over the limit on provinces for Dom3 maps. Your image has close to 2200 provinces. I'm not sure what the limit is exactly, but it is less than that. Have you had a look at the image from the "A Game of Thrones" board game that I included? I think that's a good start to how provinces could be divided. For the scenario version, you could have finer graded provinces, of course - but not as many as you tried to. The Neck and the other woods are a mass of flags in the game.

[HoneyBadger]

Maybe you could ask Johan and Kristoffer to raise the province limit? They've been generously raising other limits lately, which is fantastic, so maybe this one too? I'd certainly support it-I for one wouldn't mind a 2500 province limit (or 25,000 for that matter, but 2500 would probably be plenty for everyone but me and Gandalf).

[LDiCesare]

I confess I can't understand how one can find time to play on maps more than a few hundred provinces.

[Kristoffer O]

Placing 2500 individual provinces in a map would take huge amounts of time. I can't see how anyone could finish making a map where thy intend to place 2500 provinces, which i assume one would do if one made the westeroes map playable.

I would probably not play a map of similar proportions, but I imagine there are those who would. But playing might be more rewarding then placing and naming provinces.

[Sombre]

The westeroes map doesn't inherently have 2500 provinces. If you look at the boardgame version it has like 50.

It can have as many provinces as the mapper wants it to have. I think 100 or so would fit well on the map.

[Gandalf Parker]

As much as I love huge maps, and do play 1500 maps, I would advise against increasing the size again. The last increase involved far more than we expected. The game crashed over some of the strangest things and we had to increase many arrays that we did not expect to be affected.

[Atreides]

I am definitely a fan of large maps, and thank you Ich for that province count. How did you determine the number approximately? I figured I was over, but fortunately I am OCD enough and love A Song of Ice and Fire enough that I'll just redraw it with fewer provinces Probably on the image you posted too. It's much cleaner, maybe add in some of the labels that are on the image I used. Oh well, back to work.